why am I being offered a back-up dvd with my order

[Lauren]

I am about to order microsoft office ultimate and have 2 questions!

On the checkout page I am offered a back-up dvd, what is it and should I
purchase it as well?

I am also being offered an extended download service, I understand the
concept of what it is, but I don
t understand how it would benefit me. Once I purchase a product I thought
that I could always go to product order history and redownload my purchased
product at anytime if I needed to, am I wrong, should I order the extended
download service as well?

I don't want to regret getting or not getting either of these items.
Please explain as much as you can about one or the other...or both questions!
I appreciate any and all of your suggestions, advice, and or input!

Thanks,
Lauren

 

[DL]

You would probably be advised to purchase direct from eg amazon.com, its
cheaper & you get the cd/dvd

If you download from MS & purchase the key online without a backup cd/dvd
you are unlikely to be able to reinstall in the event of sys failure

 

[Don MI]

I am about to order microsoft office ultimate and have 2 questions!

On the checkout page I am offered a back-up dvd, what is it and should I
purchase it as well?

I am also being offered an extended download service, I understand the
concept of what it is, but I don
t understand how it would benefit me. Once I purchase a product I thought
that I could always go to product order history and redownload my
purchased
product at anytime if I needed to, am I wrong, should I order the extended
download service as well?

I don't want to regret getting or not getting either of these items.
Please explain as much as you can about one or the other...or both
questions!
I appreciate any and all of your suggestions, advice, and or input!

Thanks,
Lauren

I am not aware of Microsoft doing this. Other companies, such as Digital
River do, when you purchase a program and then download the purchase.
Digital River allows you to re-download the purchase for a limited time {I
recall 30 days) unless you purchase the extended download service to extend
the re-download time. They also offer a alternate of purchase of a backup
CD/DVD if you do not want to purchase the extended download period or
perhaps have a slow connection and just want the disk shipped to you.
Digital River is a software delivery service for a number of companies such
as Symantec. If you choose, you could purchase one of these extras. I would
not purchase both.

Don

 

[Lauren]

Thanks for your advice! I went ahead and ordered the extended download
service and I am going to copy the file I downloaded to a cd-r. For anyone
else who reads my previous post, please go ahead and reply, I'm sure other
people have the same question from time to time!
Thanks again DL!
Lauren

 

[XS11E]

Thanks for your advice! I went ahead and ordered the extended
download service and I am going to copy the file I downloaded to a
cd-r.

You did the right thing but I think you'll need a DVD or more than one
CD-R.

PLEASE DO NOT LOSE THE KEY! I suggest entering it into a text file and
copying that file to the same CD-R(s) or DVD as the downloaded file.